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health, you are sworn to use diligence in your art...but all your boasted science is nothing but an invention to cheat and deceive." (Regush, p. 3) He also believed that human beings are composed of seven distinct principles, with the elementary (physical body) being the first, the sidereal (or astral body) the second, and others including intelligent, rational and spiritual bodies. According to Paracelsus, all organic functions are caused by the activity of one PIONEERS IN AURA RESEARCH health, you are sworn to use diligence in man, "the invisible nutriment from which by Karen Mutton © 2007 your art...but all your boasted science is _ the visible body draws its strength". nothing but an invention to cheat and (Regush, p. 9). The vehicle for the Paracelsus (1493-1541) deceive." (Regush, p. 3) archaeus is the mumia, and the most Bombastus von Hohenheim was a_ composed of seven distinct principles, although plants, animals and other 16th-century alchemist and _ with the elementary (physical body) being substances can also act as conveyors of physician. He later titled himself as the first, the sidereal (or astral body) the _ the life force. Poses Aureolus Theophrastus He also believed that human beings are _ universal form of the mumia is the aether, Paracelsus ("greater than Celsus" of second, and others including intelligent, "The archaeus is of a magnetic nature, Rome). To esoteric scholar Manly Hall, rational and spiritual bodies. and attracts or repulses other sympathetic Paracelsus was an Hermetic philosopher According to Paracelsus, all organic _ or antipathetic forces belonging to the who was acknowledged by occultists as _ functions are caused by the activity of one same plane. The less power of resistance the greatest physician of all for astral influences a person time. possesses, the more will he be At the age of sixteen, subject to such influences. Paracelsus entered the The vital force is not enclosed University of Basle where he in man, but radiates (within studied alchemy, surgery and and) around him like a medicine. He travelled luminous sphere (aura) and it extensively throughout may be made to act at a Europe and is said to have distance... It may poison the visited India, where he essence of life (blood) and discovered the pain-killing cause diseases, or may purify properties of opium. Later he it after it has been made returned to the University of impure and restore the health." Basle as a professor of (Paracelsus, Paragranum; medicine and surgery. translated by Franz Hartmann) Paracelsus followed no The archaeus is an essence particular religion but was that is contained in the nature impressed by Martin Luther, and character of all beings and who started the Reformation. is equally distributed He was widely acknowledged throughout the human body. It as the Father of contains the elements of all Pharmacology, having cosmic influences (stars, introduced opium, mercury planets, Sun, Moon, etc,) and and various minerals into therefore enables these cosmic medicine as well as having forces to influence the discovered the element invisible body of man. hydrogen. His radical medical "All diseases, except such as theories and practices aroused come from mechanical causes, the ire of the more have an invisible origin, and conservative physicians who of such sources popular still followed the medical medicine knows very little... tenets of Galen. Some (physicians) poison Attacked as an eccentric—or their patients with mercury; worse, a lunatic—Paracelsus believed that others purge them or bleed them to death. humans exude a "vital force" which universal principle of life called There are some who have learned so surrounds the body like a "luminous —archaeus. This is a spiritual essence, ever much that their learning has driven out all sphere". He was a harsh critic of present and invisible, which may cause or _ their common sense, and others who care contemporary medicine, and his comments cure a disease according to the body's a great deal more for their own profit than alienated him from his fellow physicians: condition. The archaeus, or liquor vitae the health of their patients." (Regush, p. "You poison the people and ruin their ("life fluid"), constitutes the invisible 10) Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim ("Paracelsus"), 1490-1541 Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim ("Paracelsus"), 1490-1541 universal principle of life called archaeus. This is a spiritual essence, ever present and invisible, which may cause or cure a disease according to the body's condition. The archaeus, or liquor vitae ("life fluid"), constitutes the invisible 44 = NEXUS PIONEERS IN AURA RESEARCH by Karen Mutton © 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2007